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'In This Woman Adrienne Eberhard's themes of gardens and nature, fecundity, random illness and cycles of renewal, explore the vital connections that develop between people and place. Ranging from the D'Entrecasteaux Channel to Canton, Papua New Guinea and Kew and from the eighteenth century to the present, these poems investigate ways in which physical places create mental and emotional spaces fundamental to human needs. Poems about motherhood and children; birds and animals; Aboriginal hand stencils, and love poems that draw connections between geography and the human body, give us an intimate view of our earthly presence. The title poem adds a plangency and raw tenderness to work which reminds us of what it means to be human, and in particular, a woman.hen Adrienne Eberhard assumes the persona of Jane, Lady Franklin, wife of the colonial Governor Sir John Franklin, she releases herself as a poet of intimate engagements. In a suite of poems, linked together like a chain of ponds, she follows Jane Franklin's Tasmanian years. Water, rocks, fossils, step daughters, desire or guilt and betrayal, and love of the physical world seethe in her lines.' Source: http://blackpepperpublishing.com/ Sighted 03/05/2012).
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Dedication: For Patrick, Lawrence and Byron.
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Signifying the Feminine
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , March-April no. 3 2012;
— Review of This Woman 2011 selected work poetry -
Australian Poetry 2011-2012
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , July vol. 57 no. 1 2012; (p. 30-46)
— Review of Amphora 2011 selected work poetry ; Edge Music 2011 selected work poetry ; Linen Tough as History 2012 selected work poetry ; Error 2011 selected work poetry ; Night Birds 2010 single work poetry ; Vishvarūpa 2011 selected work poetry ; The Brokenness Sonnets I-III and Other Poems 2011 selected work poetry ; Outside 2011 selected work poetry ; The Welfare of My Enemy 2011 single work poetry ; This Woman 2011 selected work poetry ; Electricity For Beginners 2011 selected work poetry ; Interferon Psalms : 33 Psalms on the 99 Names of God 2011 selected work poetry ; Keeping Carter 2012 selected work poetry ; The Keeper of Fish 2011 selected work poetry ; A Sudden Sentence in the Air : Jazz Poems 2011 selected work poetry ; Concrete Tuesday 2011 selected work poetry ; The Bearded Chameleon 2011 selected work poetry ; Southern Barbarians 2009 selected work poetry ; The Yellow Gum's Conversion 2011 selected work poetry ; Four Refrains 2011 selected work poetry ; Surface to Air 2011 selected work poetry ; Knuckled 2011 selected work poetry -
Untitled
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Wet Ink , no. 25 2011; (p. 65)
— Review of This Woman 2011 selected work poetry -
Exploring Human Terrain
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 10 December 2011; (p. 32)
— Review of This Woman 2011 selected work poetry ; The Blue Dressing Gown and Other Poems 2011 selected work poetry -
Untitled
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , October no. 10 2011;
— Review of This Woman 2011 selected work poetry
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Untitled
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , October no. 10 2011;
— Review of This Woman 2011 selected work poetry -
Exploring Human Terrain
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 10 December 2011; (p. 32)
— Review of This Woman 2011 selected work poetry ; The Blue Dressing Gown and Other Poems 2011 selected work poetry -
Untitled
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Wet Ink , no. 25 2011; (p. 65)
— Review of This Woman 2011 selected work poetry -
Australian Poetry 2011-2012
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , July vol. 57 no. 1 2012; (p. 30-46)
— Review of Amphora 2011 selected work poetry ; Edge Music 2011 selected work poetry ; Linen Tough as History 2012 selected work poetry ; Error 2011 selected work poetry ; Night Birds 2010 single work poetry ; Vishvarūpa 2011 selected work poetry ; The Brokenness Sonnets I-III and Other Poems 2011 selected work poetry ; Outside 2011 selected work poetry ; The Welfare of My Enemy 2011 single work poetry ; This Woman 2011 selected work poetry ; Electricity For Beginners 2011 selected work poetry ; Interferon Psalms : 33 Psalms on the 99 Names of God 2011 selected work poetry ; Keeping Carter 2012 selected work poetry ; The Keeper of Fish 2011 selected work poetry ; A Sudden Sentence in the Air : Jazz Poems 2011 selected work poetry ; Concrete Tuesday 2011 selected work poetry ; The Bearded Chameleon 2011 selected work poetry ; Southern Barbarians 2009 selected work poetry ; The Yellow Gum's Conversion 2011 selected work poetry ; Four Refrains 2011 selected work poetry ; Surface to Air 2011 selected work poetry ; Knuckled 2011 selected work poetry -
Signifying the Feminine
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , March-April no. 3 2012;
— Review of This Woman 2011 selected work poetry
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